The campus of Sydney University is simply random. Beautiful Sandstone buildings stand next to modern glass and steel structures. Today Annelotte and I visited only a small part of the campus, but already we realized it was far larger than our own Erasmus University. We went for an information session where we met other international students, ranging from another Dutch girl studying law to Americans studying history and chemistry. An enthusiastic Australian with a heavy accent introduced us to several topics. He sometimes started laughing about something so much that it made him incapable of explaining us properly what he was laughing about. He had one of the hardest accents to understand so far, although the guy at the night reception in our hostel is breathing down his neck. Australians have the annoying habit to swallow the ends of their words. All in all we got info on accommodation, a very esthetically pleasing sheet on skin diseases, which foods make up a healthy diet, a safety guide on biking and much more.
That same evening Lisianne and I went to our first viewing of a house in Alexandria, which was situated in something that looked like a holiday park with a big gate and a little pool. The house was fine, but the location was optimal. Buses to the house only run until eight in the evening, so we decided to look a bit further. We have until Thursday to accept or decline. In the mean time we ended up being too late for the hostel BBQ we planned to attend, so we went to the McDonalds, as they have free wireless there. Unfortunately the speed of that internet is as fast as a stoned snail, meaning we are still dependant on the internet café.
Luckily we found out later that not all buses stop running at eight, which made us more hopeful. Tomorrow we will start searching again for a place we can call home.
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